O say, can you SEA?
The ocean provides humans these 3 things
What are air, food, and water
This is a large system of rotating ocean currents.
What is a gyre?
Waves are energy passing through this
What is a MEDIUM
This is the highest point of a wave
What is the CREST
These two factors are key for deciding the oceans density
What are temperature and salinity?
50-80% of the air we breathe comes from these tiny critters in the ocean
What are PLANKTON
This current type flows fast and sits on the top layer…
What are surface currents
This ocean floor feature goes down deep.
What is a trench?
One blast from this over water is a wave creator!
What is the WIND
Another name for an underwater mountain
What is a SEAMOUNT
Evaporation, Precipitation, and Transpiration are all a part of this cycle
What is the WATER CYCLE
An ocean wave is a movement of this through a body of water
What is ENERGY
Formed when lava builds a seamount until it's big enough to rise above the ocean water, these islands are known as
What are VOLCANIC ISLANDS
Waves are caused by wind, but tides are caused by this
What is the MOON
Determining wave length consists of measuring between these two points
What is crest-to-crest or what is trough to trough
This major problem, created by humans, is damaging the oceans by harvesting too many fish too fast
What is OVER-FISHING
Near the shore, wave height does this while the wave length decreases
What is INCREASES
This ocean floor feature is as empty and barren as a desert
What is an ABYSSAL PLAIN
This Hollywood movie shares a name with tectonic plates moving apart from each other.
What is DIVERGENT
This is the main difference between the continental shelf and the continental slope.
What is STEEPNESS
Changing the average temperatures on the planet has this scientific name
What is CLIMATE CHANGE
When tectonic plates do this, a trench is formed
What is CONVERGE
When this occurs, one tectonic plate drops below the head-on push of another plate.
What is SUBDUCTION
This type of pull effects the rise and fall of the tides
What is the MOON'S GRAVITATIONAL PULL
When carbon dioxide gets absorbed in our oceans, it lowers this
What is the PH LEVEL